Sentence examples for trace of ego from inspiring English sources

He appears not to have a trace of ego.

He could explain everything with authority, from the chinaman to the Duckworth-Lewis formula, but without any trace of ego.

I don't think I've ever met a high-profile activist so lacking in any discernible trace of ego.

/ "I don't know, man – is this your otter?" As ever, the twosome work together like a dream, and without a trace of ego.

I don't think I've ever met a broadcasting star with less discernible trace of ego – despite having just joined an elite BBC club whose members can be counted on one hand.

The goal, she says without a trace of ego behind it, is "I just don't want people to get bored, and I don't want them to go on autopilot [while listening]," she said, casting the idea as swimming upstream in the age of individual songs overshadowing full albums in the music business.

His recorded output on the German label ECM, stretching back more than 30 years, involves a great deal of solo exposition but only faint traces of ego.

"He never showed a trace of personal ego or animosity," Mr. Cleland said.

But very often movie-making is casting and letting yourself be seen without a trace of coyness, ego, self-pity or attitude.

He seems to disappear inside them, heart and soul and sinew, until the figure on screen is 100-proof chandcter, ano no watery trace of actor's ego remains.

In the piece, Remnick described his initial impression of the writer: To meet DeLillo, at first, is to meet someone who seems to have sanded away all trace of the authorial ego or personal affect: his voice is a flat, wry monotone with just a trace of Bronx; he wears enormous and very thick glasses; his clothes tend toward mail-order jeans, denim work shirts, chinos.